Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incident at Monza until the Archbishop of Milan-now Pope Paul VI-helped unlock 347-year-old church records in 1957 to reveal the scandal. Perhaps the fate was too harsh for the lady-or for her chronicles-but it is the kind that this dubbed and sluggish adaptation deserves...
Coach Bill McCollom has the problem of keeping his team from becoming sluggish. if not bored, as it beats inferior opponents. He says that his players' "perfectionism and personal pride" seem to be sufficient to keep them playing well most of the time...
...MANY ways ecology is too narrowly defined. It has the potential to become not a ruse to re-invigorate a sluggish economy and divert radical criticism from issues of oppression, but the means to the realization that the greatest polluter of the earth is American corporate capitalism, whose continued health is based on continued expansion-expansion of the economy, of markets, and, crucially, of the population...
...violence is that companies supplying guards, watchdogs, alarms, surveillance devices and identification systems can barely keep up with the demand. The U.S. Department of Commerce estimates that the number of detective agencies and protective services has grown by 40% since 1965, to more than 3,000. In the sluggish mid-February stock market, a $15 million issue of stock in Brink's, the armored-car company, sold easily and rose to a 10% premium. Pinkerton's, which has the largest U.S. private detective force, reported that 1969 revenues increased 21%, to a record $120.5 million. Vice President John...
...Miss Bird notes, was clearly efficiency for the few based on the poverty and despair of many. In those days of unemployment rates ranging up to 25% of the work force, any job was a treasure to be treated with devotion. Several people were waiting to replace any sluggish or surly worker; if laid off, he could count on months or even years of idleness and penury...